The Routledge Handbook of Global Sustainability Education and Thinking for the 21st Century
- 620 pages
- English
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The Routledge Handbook of Global Sustainability Education and Thinking for the 21st Century
About this book
This handbook discusses the concept of sustainable education as a tool for institutional leadership, educational program development, and developing course and lecture materials. It focuses on the challenges of sustainable development and explains how these challenges require a revised pedagogical approach in preparing modern students for the 21st century.
The handbook volume explores the role of education, training, and development in answering the rising issues of climate change, resource depletion, population growth, pollution, and land degradation. Focusing on the core concepts and contexts involved in modern sustainability education, the handbook provides a broad multi- and trans-disciplinary introduction to sustainability discourses across a wide spectrum of disciplinary perspectives on sustainability education such as key concepts, important contexts, useful pedagogy, and ideas on curriculum development.
This unique handbook will be of interest to students, teachers, and researchers of education, higher education, sustainability, and sustainable education. It will also be useful for academicians, educationalists, educators, curriculum developers, and general public readers interested in understanding the sustainability challenges.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Editorial preface
- List of contributors
- Section 1 Global sustainability education and thinking for the 21st century
- Section 2 Modern sustainability challenges
- Section 3 Sustainability transition outcomes and the language of ‘sustainability’
- Section 4 Key competencies in sustainability education
- Section 5 Educating the educators
- Section 6 Pedagogy and strategies for teaching sustainability education
- Section 7 Environmental stewardship and climate change management as foundational learnings in sustainability education
- Section 8 Ethics, values and governance
- Section 9 Leadership in the sustainability education transition
- Index